Zaniyah — #842 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Zaniyah

The Social Security Administration has registered 7,096 babies named Zaniyah between 1996 and 2024, spanning 29 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Zaniyah currently holds the #842 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 399 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Zaniyah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 3,491 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Zaniyah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 665 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Zaniyah in 38 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Zaniyah in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 7,096 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.